Usually means: Furniture for sitting or reclining.
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We found 50 dictionaries that define the word couch:

General (33 matching dictionaries)
  1. couch: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. couch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. couch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. couch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. couch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Couch, couch, couch: Wordnik
  7. couch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Couch, couch: Wiktionary
  9. couch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. couch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. couch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Couch, Couch, couch: Dictionary.com
  13. couch (n.), couch (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. couch: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Couch (band), Couch (disambiguation), Couch (film), Couch (surname), Couch, The Couch (Seinfeld), The Couch (Seinfeld episode), The Couch (film): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Couch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. couch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. couch: Rhymezone
  19. Couch (f), couch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. couch: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. couch: Free Dictionary
  22. couch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. Couch, couch: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. Couch (verb): The Word Detective
  25. couch: Dictionary/thesaurus
  26. couch: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. couch: Infoplease Dictionary

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  3. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. couch: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. couch: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. couch: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Arms and Armour (No longer online)
  3. couch: Idioms

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Couch: Easton Bible
  2. Couch: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. couch, couch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. the couch: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. Furnishings Guide (No longer online)
  3. Couch: TheFurniture.com

(Note: See couched as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (Canada, US, Australia, Ireland) An item of furniture, often upholstered, for the comfortable seating of more than one person; a sofa.
noun:  A bed, a resting-place.
noun:  The den of an otter.
noun:  (art, painting and gilding) A preliminary layer, as of colour or size.
noun:  (brewing) A mass of steeped barley spread upon a floor to germinate, in malting; or the floor occupied by the barley.
noun:  (metonymically, usually as "the couch") Psychotherapy.
noun:  (figurative, politics, usually as "the couch") Voters who opt out of voting, usually by staying home on their couch.
verb:  To lie down; to recline (upon a couch or other place of repose).
verb:  To bend the body, as in reverence, pain, labor, etc.; to stoop; to crouch.
verb:  (transitive) To lay something upon a bed or other resting place.
verb:  (transitive) To arrange or dispose as if in a bed.
verb:  (transitive) To lay or deposit in a bed or layer; to bed.
verb:  (transitive) To lower (a spear or lance) to the position of attack.
verb:  (ophthalmology, transitive) In the treatment of a cataract in the eye, to displace the opaque lens with a sharp object such as a needle. The technique is regarded as largely obsolete.
verb:  (paper-making, transitive) To transfer (for example, sheets of partly dried pulp) from the wire mould to a felt blanket for further drying.
verb:  (sewing, transitive) To attach a thread onto fabric with small stitches in order to add texture.
verb:  To phrase in a particular style; to use specific wording for.
verb:  (archaic) To lie down for concealment; to conceal, to hide; to be concealed; to be included or involved darkly or secretly.
noun:  Couch grass, a species of persistent grass, Elymus repens, usually considered a weed.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Mason County, West Virginia, United States.

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